Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Huang, Kai" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add X86_FEATURE_SGX_EUPDATESVN feature flag | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2025 00:18:28 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2025-05-22 at 12:21 +0300, Elena Reshetova wrote: > --- a/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h > +++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h > @@ -481,6 +481,7 @@ > #define X86_FEATURE_AMD_HTR_CORES (21*32+ 6) /* Heterogeneous Core Topology */ > #define X86_FEATURE_AMD_WORKLOAD_CLASS (21*32+ 7) /* Workload Classification */ > #define X86_FEATURE_PREFER_YMM (21*32+ 8) /* Avoid ZMM registers due to downclocking */ > +#define X86_FEATURE_SGX_EUPDATESVN (21*32+11) /* Support for ENCLS[EUPDATESVN] instruction */
[Sorry for not mentioning in the previous version.]
Nit:
I am not sure we need to change tool headers.
Per commit
f6d9883f8e68 ("tools/include: Sync x86 headers with the kernel sources")
.. and tools/include/uapi/README:
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What we are doing now is a third option:
- A software-enforced copy-on-write mechanism of kernel headers to tooling, driven by non-fatal warnings on the tooling side build when kernel headers get modified:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/fs.h diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h ...
The tooling policy is to always pick up the kernel side headers as-is, and integate them into the tooling build. The warnings above serve as a notification to tooling maintainers that there's changes on the kernel side.
We've been using this for many years now, and it might seem hacky, but works surprisingly well.
.. I interpret the updating to tools headers is not mandatory (unless building tools fails w/o the new feature bit definition which I believe isn't the case of SGX_UPDATESVN). The tools maintainers will eventually do the sync.
But on the other hand, modifying tools headers in this patch also reduces tools maintainer's effort in the future.
That being said, I am unclear with the rule here. Perhaps Dave/Ingo can help to clarify.
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